American Horror Story Season 2

September 19, 2012 //
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Last year I watched the first season of American Horror Story. I liked it. It’s definitely different than any other TV show i’ve watched and it wasn’t as scary as their promotional ads made it seem to be. Season 2 will pretty much start over and have new characters and a new story minus a couple overlapping themes and cast members. The promos for this year definitely do make it appear creepier than last year.

The music and the way they shoot simple things to make them appear worse than they are is what makes these videos so scary.  I love it! So Dexter-ish. I think there are over 20 videos now, but below is a sampling of a few of the creepiest.

View a ton more here if you dare.

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Teeny Goody Bags

September 19, 2012 //
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I’ve always been a fan of cute little hand-stamped muslin bags. I always save the ones I get from Anthropologie because they’re too darn cute to just throw away. I’ve never gotten to actually use them though for an event yet, until now. I’m thinking of using them as save the dates and filling them with a few seeds. The couple is getting married in a garden and love to garden themselves. Little seed pouches just seem appropriate. Yes, yes I could go the paper route and make seed packets, but that’d be too easy!

Check out a few muslin bag ideas I found on the interwebs for inspiration:

lavender sachets



herb packets



gorgeous invitation holders

adorable party favors

Check out a ton more little baggies handstamped with all kinds of things at Jennifer’s Cookies Etsy Shop.

Categories Etsy, Packaging

My Idea of the Perfect Tailgate

September 17, 2012 //
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Kidding. I do NOT picture tailgating like this. But this picture made me laugh out loud so it needed to be included in this post. It’s all kinds of wrong. “Tailgating” in a lacey white dress wearing pearls and heels. But hey, she’s multitasking. Tossin’ the pigskin around, grillin’ gifts. That’s what it’s about.

Anyway, so I went tailgating this weekend and I hadn’t been in forever. I started thinking about the reality of my tailgating experiences versus what I like to pretend they are. For instance, in my mind they will look like this:

Gorgeous Autumn day with cute thermoses, plaid blankets and hot chocolate bloody marys. We’d look like a page torn out of an Ll Bean catalog:

We’d eat delicious, maybe a little bougie, hors d’oeuvres of mini mac and cheese, mini corn dogs, chocolate covered football strawberries (who actually takes the time to make those, I don’t know) and more.

Instead though, the reality is more like this:

Or this

Oh well. We can’t all be Martha Stewart. At least the hotdogs and beer were tasty.

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Frame Your Bad Hair Days

September 17, 2012 //
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I like the idea of using cards for pictures and framing them. I painted these “Bad Hair Day” cards a while ago and  thought they could make cute pictures for a bathroom. It’s so easy to do a quick way to dress up a room for just a few dollars. Especially with these cheap wooden frames from Ikea.

(via Etsy)

 

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Categories Interior Design

NEW Bachelorette SINvitations

September 14, 2012 //
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I posted a sneak peek a few days ago, but here are the new SINvitations, glitter envelope liners and all! Check them out too in my Etsy shop here.

 

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Guilty Jack

September 13, 2012 //
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My living room rug rocks. It’s got this super abstract giant stain looking print so if Jack has an accident (look at that little guilty face) or someone spills on it, it just looks like part of the design! Thank you Overstock.com!

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Wisdom of the Week

September 13, 2012 //
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I think i’m going to start a new post series incorporating some of my favorite quotes I’ve collected from Pinterest. Some inspirational, some just plain funny. Here’s my first:

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Ugly Sweaters and Fairy Skirts: My New Wardrobe

September 12, 2012 //
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So I have a bit of a history with drunken online shopping. It usually happens when my husband goes out of town and I have a bottle of wine for dinner. The next brilliant idea I have is “ooh I should do a little online browsing.” Now I rationalize this with going to Forever21′s site because it’s cheap and “how much damage can I do?”

Well the last time I thought this, I ended up spending about $200 and when my package of fashions arrived, a see-through purple crop top and 3 pairs of red tights arrived. I should have learned my lesson. But of course not. The urge struck again last weekend and low and behold my package arrived this evening. Some stuff is acceptable. Some red ankle pants, a basic grey long sleeve T, some cute gloves I didn’t need, but then I saw these: A neon pink heart sweater and a fairy skirt. See below.

In my defense, the skirt looked super bad ass on the model with a leather jacket (of which I do not own). The heart sweater? I took a gamble. Not sure what I was thinking honestly. Oh well, I’ll be exchanging these.

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Jack Slide

September 12, 2012 //
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So here’s yet another way we torture Jack since we don’t have kids. Here’s the other.

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A Bloody Good Time

September 12, 2012 //
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So I realize Halloween isn’t for a while, however anyone planning party may want to think about sending out invitations. I got to thinking about how funny and freaky it would be to receive a bloody envelope in the mail. So I got out some of my fake blood from Halloween and made bloody fingerprinted cards. Paint works too, as well as super dark red fingernail polish, but good ole fashioned  fake blood always works like a charm.

FREE PRINTABLES
Below are 5×7 printable invitations. Just click on the image, save it to your desktop and print on 8.5×11 paper. I also included a sheet of faux bloody prints to use portions of for any paper you may want to bloody.

 

 

 

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